 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...inert ; that energy, which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestick... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...because Dryden had more; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope; and even of Drydtn it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited bv some external occasion, or extorted by domestic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...of abundant vegetation ; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the sithe, and levelled by the roller. said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates ; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...the scythe, and levelled by the roller. bines, amplifies, and animates ; d1e superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. l?ryden's performances were always hasty, e1ther excited by some external occasion, or extorted by... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 pages
...is inert, that energy which collects*, combines, amplifies, and animates, the superiority must with some hesitation be allowed to Dryden. It is not to...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.' Dryden's performances were always hasty ; either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...a little.because Dryden had more ; for every other writer, since Milton, must give place to Pepe ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that if he has brighter paragraphs, lu: has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty ; either excited by some external... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority roust, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to...has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. Dryden's performances were always hasty, either excited by some external occasion, or extorted by domestick... | |
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Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems. 
